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A revision of the defining book covering the physics and classical mathematics necessary to understand electromagnetic fields in materials and at surfaces and interfaces. The third edition has been revised to address the changes in emphasis and applications that have occurred in the past twenty years.

Introduction and Survey

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1.1 Maxwell Equations in Vacuum, Fields, and Sources

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1.2 Inverse Square Law, or the Mass of the Photon

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1.3 Linear Superposition

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1.4 Maxwell Equations in Macroscopic Media

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1.5 Boundary Conditions at Interfaces Between Different Media

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1.6 Some Remarks on Idealizations in Electromagnetism

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References and Suggested Reading

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Chapter 1 Introduction to Electrostatics

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1.1 Coulomb's Law

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1.2 Electric Field

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1.3 Gauss's Law

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1.4 Differential Form of Gauss's Law

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1.5 Another Equation of Electrostatics and the Scalar Potential

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1.6 Surface Distributions of Charges and Dipoles and Discontinuities in the Electric Field and Potential

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1.7 Poisson and Laplace Equations

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1.8 Green's Theorem

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1.9 Uniqueness of the Solution with Dirichlet or Neumann Boundary Conditions